Burland Burland is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Burland and Acton, in the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, about miles west of Nantwich. The civil parish also included t ...

is a former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

Cheshire East Cheshire East is a unitary authority area with borough status in Cheshire, England. The local authority is Cheshire East Council, which is based in the town of Sandbach. Other towns within the area include Crewe, Macclesfield, Congleton, Wilms ...

, England. It contained 20 buildings that are recorded in the

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as designated

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s, all of which are at Grade II. This grade is the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". Apart from the village of Burland, the parish was rural. Most of the listed buildings are houses, cottages or farm buildings. A group of these date from the 17th century, and most of them are

timber-framed Timber framing () and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy Beam (structure), timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and Woodworking joints, joined timbers with joints secure ...

. Another group was built along the Wrexham Road (the

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) by the Peckforton estate in Tudor style in about 1870. The

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passes through the parish, and two listed structures are linked with this, a bridge, and a

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. The other listed buildings are a former windmill and a signpost.

References

Citations Sources * {{DEFAULTSORT:Burland Listed buildings in the Borough of Cheshire East Lists of listed buildings in Cheshire